East Asia

East Asia I have learned a lot about East Asia. There are five themes in World Regional Geography that are important to know. Today, I will discuss with you different topics in the themes to give you a better understanding about the region, East Asia. The first important area to know about East Asia is the environment. East Asia’s environment varies depending on the area you are in. The climate of East Asia is a little different than some others. There are much more chilled winters and summers are

Western imperialism in East Asia caused many tribulations for China, Japan, and Korea but also helped them to become contemporary nations. The East Asian countries were tremendously affected by unequal treaties, extraterritoriality, and above all, technology. Great Britain encroached upon China their greed for open trade with the Chinese empire resulting in the deterioration of the Chinese culture, which led to the emergence of a modernized civilization. Japan was co-subjugated by Russia and the

differences between the healthcare in East Asia and the United States. The paper will discuss government programs that each country offers its citizens, how certain countries have taken preventative measures for its people and how the health of people in Asian countries versus the U.S differs and some possible explanations for why this may occur. This paper will discuss many different countries because Asia has many developing countries and no country in Asia has developed at the same rate. Healthcare

Asia is one of the continents that has had trouble in the past with their economic growth before, The East Asian Miracle, occurred. The East Asian miracle has really helped East Asia’s economical growth. During this semester we have come across The East Asian Miracle, and how it came about. I have read The Four Little Dragons, also the World Bank report and Balassa’s article. Each one of the readings have different and similar arguments in why The East Asian Miracle happened. While The Four Little

the Middle East, and West Asia, but all these ideas come from Oriental fantasies from the nineteenth century. Edward Said the author of Orientalism said that “Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, West, "us") and the strange (the Orient, the East, "them").” The nineteenth century was a period of imperialism and tourism that led many western artists to visit West Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Orientalist

Two-thirds of the world’s population is distributed in four regions- East Asia, South Asia, Europe and Southeast Asia. The two basic properties when understanding how population is distributed are concentration and density. The density of a place refers to the amount of people in the area over the land size of that area. In the same aspect, concentration is the amount of people in a certain region and how they are concentrated in that region. There are many pros (advantages) and cons (disadvantages)

Over the last few years, Australia has been booming with tourists mainly from the middle east Asia. The cause of this major boom in Australian tourism was due to the growth of Gulf carriers carrying 11.5% of all international passengers to and from Australia. With an alarming increase of traffic to Australia by the Gulf carriers, the Australian market share has increased, leaving Emirates Australia 's second most popular international airline (Flynn,2014). Each of the gulf carriers has had different

The Rise of Asian Free Trade Agreements On November 4th 2001, one year after the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China announced their intent to form the largest free trade area in the world, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and his ASEAN counterparts signed the deal that became effective on the first of January 2010. This event marked a paradigm shift in thinking among the nations of ASEAN, the original intent of which was to keep an eye on communist aims, specifically Chinese

several European nations in order to attain economic stability, avoid conflicts as well as for political coalition. Another would be the Asian South East Asia Nation or better known as ASEAN. ASEAN is an organization that represents most of the countries that is located in the South East Asian region. It started as the Association of Southeast Asia (ASA) in 1961 by Malaysia (known as Malaya before 1963), Philippines and Thailand. It became ASEAN in 1967 after Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines

most convincing arguments in “East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute” is that the East Asia system was more effective in keeping peace as opposed to the system in Europe, a continent that saw many wars in the five centuries that Kang covers in his book. Kang quotes scholars saying “…there appeared to be one race, and the West had strung the tape at the finish line for others to break…” and “… many of our international-relations theories … see East Asians as identical to Westerners